The National Gap Analysis Program
The USGS GAP program offers state and national projects' mapping of
natural communities, native species, land tracts, and analysis.
Southern Rockies Ecosystem
Project
To identify, protect and restore critical areas of biological and ecological
diversity inthe Southern Rockies. Includes information, assessments,
mapping and GIS.
Environment, general
CORRD: Colorado Renewable Resource Database
An interactive map of wind classes, transmission lines, and federal lands in Colorado. Click on "download maps" to download datasets, including wind speed. (Works best in Internet Explorer.)
EPA - Mapping
Products
The Environmental Protection Agency provides several different mapping
utilities which allow the user to generate custom maps either in a GIS
interface or through a database search. Maps can be scaled from the
whole U.S. to a community level, and can contain information about industry
output, EPA-regulated facility sites, waste emission, toxins, water
and air quality, and so on. Other map layers can be added, such as demographics,
landmarks, roads, water, and political boundaries.
EPA -Biological
Indicators of Watershed Health
"The presence, condition, and numbers of the types of fish, insects,
algae, plants and other aquatic life can provide accurate information
about the health of a specific waterbody such as a river, stream, lake,
wetland, estuary or coral reef. "
Border EcoWeb
Provides environmental information for the U.S.-Mexican border region,
including access to agencies and people working on the solutions to
these environmental issues and basic environmental data for the transborder
region.
Ecocart
International Environmental Databases for sale. Includes maps, books,
and GIS information.
UNEP GRID-Arendal Maps and Graphics
Library
From the United Nations Environment Programme's Global Resource Information
Database. "This service is an on-going project to collect and catalogue
all graphic products that have been prepared for publications and web-sites
from the last 15 years in a wide range of themes related to environment
and sustainable development." For more information about UNEP see:
UNEP/GRID-Arendal.
USDA Geospatial Data Gateway
Downloadable natural resources and environmental data, searchable by
geographic area or by theme.
PRISM data
Oregon State University's Spatial Climate Analysis Service: Annual Precipitation
maps, GIS data, and ASCII data.
Fire
National Fire Maps
Links to fire maps and data from the National Interagency Fire Center.
Forests
Tropical Rain Forest Information
Center (Michigan State University)
The Tropical Rain Forest Information Center is a project of NASA's Earth
Science Information Partnership program. MSU was selected to archive
and distribute high resolution satellite data for the tropical forest
biomes of the world. This site provides maps and satellite images of
tropical rain forest areas.
Vegetation
& Plant Distribution Maps
A checklist of links to online vegetation maps for all areas of the
world. Hosted by the University of California Berkeley Earth Sciences
and Map Library.
Florida
Vegetation Map
Part of the U.S. Biological Resources Division's ATLSS project, this
map can be customized to show Florida vegetation distribution by type.
American Forests is assessing urban forests across the country,
using satellite data, GIS, a through knowledge of urban ecology and
the application of the science and engineering principals developed
by experts to the Urban Ecosystem Analysis process.
USGS-NPS Vegetation Mapping
Program
The US Geological Survey and National Park Service's ongoing project
to classify and map the vegetation communities of US National Parks
and have it available in a GIS ready format.
Water
Ground Water Atlas of the
United States
Describes the ground-water resources of thirteen regional areas that
collectively cover the 50 States, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Some areas are fully illustrated; others are still under construction.
The Map Library has the full set of these Hydrologic Atlases in print
(HA-730).
Surf Your Watershed (EPA)
Surf Your Watershed provides water quality information based on geographic
areas. SYW provides collected data and other information about your
state, watershed, metropolitan area, county, or American Heritage River.
Maps available to display information.
Water Resources of the United States
A USGS division that provides hydrologic information including real
time stream flows, US watershed information, NWIS-W data from all US
states, and GIS data for water resources.
National Wetlands Inventory
(NWI)
The NWI of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service produces information on
the characteristics, extent, and status of the Nation’s wetlands
and deepwater habitats. This website includes links to download data
(arcdata, dlgdata, metadata, etc.), the Wetlands Interactive Mapper
Tool, the NWI maps database, and information on ordering hardcopy maps.
NOAA Daily Weather Maps
This site provides access to historical daily weather maps from 1871-2002 and links to the site for weather maps for 2003-present.
Wind Energy Resource
Atlas of the United States
This online publication estimates wind energy resource for the United
States and its territories, and indicates general areas where a high
wind resource may exist. Prepared for the Department of Energy.
